It is Midsummer's Eve and you are all invited to the spectacular princess palace for a special ball. Come and explore the splendid Honeysuckle Hall and try out your dance steps in the glittering Rose Ballroom. With six elaborate rooms and a maze of secret passages to discover, it's time to follow the fairies and dance the night away. With a real little staircase, wardrobes to hang clothes in, and a pop-up loo, this has to be the ultimate fairy extravaganza. The book contains 14 press-out fairies and is fastened with a pink ribbon.

Petal, Poppy, Rose and Acorn are off to a magical sleepover inside the Sweet Dreams Fairytale Castle. There are stories to read, teeth to brush and plenty of beds to curl up in - but with this much to see, how will anyone fall asleep? A glittering 3-D fairy castle with an amazing story and press-out characters.

Jump aboard the Cherryblossom Balloon and float over meadows to Blossom Orchard. This is where the Cherrytree Fairies live. With several pieces, including a twirling dancer on a stage, a miniature recipe book (with a secret recipe for Fairy Fizz!), this is a pop-up fairy treehouse.

The fairies of Snowberry Wood live in a sparkling world of ice and snow. This story unfolds this magical world of frozen waterfalls, snowy markets and cosy cabins. These fairies can go from scene to scene, zooming down ice toboggans, skating on the lake or playing in the toy and sweet emporium.

These 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story . . . Pop history meets a funny, feminist point-of-view in these illustrated tales of “royal terrors who make modern gossip queens seem as demure as Snow White” (New York Post). You think you know her story. You’ve read the Brothers Grimm, you’ve watched the Disney cartoons, and you cheered as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. But real princesses didn’t always get happy endings—and had very little in common with Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, or Ariel. Featuring illustrations by Wicked cover artist, Douglas Smith, Princesses Behaving Badly tells the true stories of famous (Marie Antoinette; Lucrezia Borgia)—and some not-so-famous—princesses throughout history and around the world, including: • Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Nazi spy. • Empress Elisabeth of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who slept wearing a mask of raw veal. • Princess Olga of Kiev, who slaughtered her way to sainthood. • Princess Lakshmibai, who waged war on the battlefield with her toddler strapped to her back. Some were villains, some were heroes, some were just plain crazy. But none of these princesses felt constrained to our notions of “lady-like” behavior.

Cinderella, Snow White, and three other well-known princesses share a surprising connection in these fairy tale retellings presented in comic book format.

"A magical pop-up world with press-out fairy pieces!"--Cover.